Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 06, 2018

Welcome to the world of non-obvious excuses.

This is where I’d throw in a variation on the old joke about “You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much” if only I weren’t too tired to think one up.

“And there came a new generation that knew not round clocks.”

If that kid is old enough to know the word squander, and use it in a complex sentence, he’s long past learning to tell time! I thought these were sixth graders!

I work in an elementary school, where a scary number of 4th and 5th graders can’t read an analog clock. They’ll squint at the little time readout in the lower corner of a computer screen and understand it, but look blankly at the big round thing on the wall.

It is sad that analog time is not taught more. Kids learn so much more from analog, such as spatial relationships and fractions of a whole.

I could read one until was in 3rd grade.

I could not. Oops.

I wonder what those who can’t read analog think is meant when someone in a movie or TV show tells someone “Watch your six”.

I used to wonder what bottom and top of the hour means.